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Five awesome BIG bee faces

Photo credit: Sam Droege/USGS

Get face-to-face with these awesome bees. USGS macro photos of bees and insects.

The USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab has posted hundreds of incredible high resolution macro photos of bees and other insects to Flickr. The images, taken by Sam Droege, are part of the lab’s mission to survey America’s native bee species. Here are five very interesting bee faces (plus one cricket.)

Eleanor Imster has worked as a writer and editor for the EarthSky since 1995 and was an integral part of the award-winning EarthSky radio series almost since it began until it ended in 2013. Today, as Lead Editor at EarthSky.org, she helps present the science and nature stories and photos you enjoy. She also serves as one of the voices of EarthSky on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and G+. She and her husband live in Tennessee and have two grown sons. Before EarthSky, Imster was in New York City, where she majored in philosophy at Barnard College and was a songwriter / singer in rock bands.